Défauts spatio-temporels, théorie des cordes et structure de l'Univers
Défauts spatio-temporels, théorie des cordes et structure de l'Univers par Patrick Peter (astrophysicien à l'IAP)
La vidéo de la conférence en direct.
M. Vinaver et A. Meunier : Une œuvre universelle, ancrée dans la réalité (sous-titres japonais)
Dramaturge depuis les années 1950, Michel Vinaver occupe une place de tout premier ordre dans le théâtre français contemporain. Il a ancré son œuvre immense dans la réalité économique, le réel, l'histoire. Sa venue au Japon en 2009, à l'occasion des représentations de sa pièce Par-dessus bord sur une mise en scène d'Arnaud Meunier et une adaptation du texte en japonais par Oriza Hirata, un des plus importants metteurs en scène du théâtre contemporain japonais, a const
Fifty years since Sputnik - Piers Bizony
Award-winning space historian, Piers Bizony, presents an illustrated account of the Space Age, from the first tiny satellites to America's colossal project to land men on the moon.
Re-Writing Composers' Lives: Critical Historiography and Musical Biography
Recent musicological discourse, while frequently considering issues of historiography
and canonicity, has seldom critically engaged with biography as a genre of documentary
significance to reception history for its attempts to shape public opinion of its subjects.
In consequence, modern musicology has often taken for granted many tendencies and
preoccupations that accumulated in musical biography in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. This thesis presents a historiographical exami
Chapter 30 - Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
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Chapter 30. Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Mike Vendetti.
Blending Bowl: Dine
In this video segment from Between the Lions, Terry Bradshaw commentates while two teams of football players crash together to make a word. Onset Team “d” versus Rhyme Team “ine” crash to form the word “dine.” After the crash, two players dine at a cafe table while the referee serves them and another player serenades them on violin. This video segment provides a resource for Fluency, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Letter Knowledge Awareness. (0:45)
Rocks, Water but no Life? - Philippe Blondel
Philippe Blondel from the University's Centre for Space, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences takes a planetary journey through the solar system and discusses whether the discovery of water means there must be life on other planets
Art a GoGo Podcast #62 - Work of Art: Next Great Artist Wrap Up + Art News Art news, reviews, and commentary without those nast side effects. Art a GoGo...It's "Art Over Easy!" Please visit our blog page at artagogo.com/blog for full show notes and links to the topics that we discuss during the podcast.
March of TIME: FDR in 1936
In this excerpt from the March of TIME Archives, the 1936 newsreel recaps the first four years of the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (2:58)
The history and development of Buddhism - Robert Heath
Dr Robert Heath, lecturer at the school of management at the University of Bath and study lecturer on Buddhism, talks about the history and development of the religion from its inception in India to the present day.
Devices and Desires
Organic devices are revolutionising lighting and solar cells, Professor Alison Walker will describe how this change will impact our lives. Light emission from organic materials is not very common in everyday life. However, some living creatures, such as fireflies and many sea creatures, emit light with amazingly high efficiencies.
Climate change: challenge or swindle?
Reverend Professor Ian James questions whether climate change is a challenge or a swindle and presents some of the certainties, complexities and controversies from the science of climate change.
The Painted Garden
A freelance garden historian, Russell Bowes, will use the clues displayed or hidden in paintings to look at the major developments of gardening styles from ancient times to the present day.
Avebury - megaliths and myths - Roger Vlitos
Freelance and professional writer Roger Vlitos examines the theories and myths about Avebury.
Have Economists gone mad? - Paul Ormerod
Paul Ormerod, the author of three best-selling books on economics talks about what mainstream economists have to say about the turmoil of world economy.
Reading For Life - Jane Davis
Dr Jane Davis tells stories about the value of great books in ordinary lives. Jane left school at 16 with 2 GCSEs but now leads an organisation which wants a bigger place in the nation's heart for books and reading. Later in life she returned to education and graduated with a 1st class degree in English and spent 3 years writing a PhD.
The rise of the Grid & the Large Hadron Collider - Glenn Patrick
Particle Physicist Dr Glenn Patrick talks about the Large Hadron Collider. Based at CERN, in Geneva, the collider is the largest scientific machine in the world. It started operation in the summer of 2008 and aims to produce colossal amounts of data, which thousands of scientists around the world will analyse to further our understanding of the universe.
The Death of Politics Probability I Fall 2007 Ken Burns Discusses His Civil War Documentary
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This course covers population and variables; Standard measures of location, spread and association; Normal approximation; Regression. Probability and sampling: Binomial distribution. Interval estimation; Some standard significance tests.
In this clip, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, discusses his documentary The Civil War at the Daily News and the implications the war had on the United States. (2:41)
